| Written by Ray Bradbury - Audio book performed by Michael Prichard - Unabridged Fiction - 8 RETAIL EDITION COMPACT DISCS - 9.5 hours Publisher, Tantor Audio (August 2010) NOTE: RETAIL EDITIONS are packaged in attractive, compact cardboard or jewel-case shrink-wrapped boxes, with full-color art. Listen to a FREE audio clip. Two drifters caught in the backwash of space wander from city to dead city, sifting the rubble for the fabled Blue Bottle of Mars---and find in it two different, equally entrancing, dooms... A young boy in Green Town, Illinois, does not marry---yet marries---his beloved eighth-grade teacher... In the hell of a Manhattan July night, Will Morgan is offered a possibly Mephistophelean proposal by which he might gain a perfect love and a magical immunity... A jealous husband who orders an exact replica of his unfaithful wife from an android manufacturing company (purpose: murder) runs afoul of the compassionate new "live robot" law... At forty-eight, seized with an overwhelming desire to settle an old score, a man journeys back into the past under the spell of his "utterly perfect, incredibly delightful idea," only to recoil in stunned disbelief when he confronts, at last, his former tormentor... Bradbury's imaginative field is boundless. In this book, his stories carry us from the cozy familiarity of the small-town America we lived in in Dandelion Wine to the frozen desert and double moon that have been part of our interior landscape since The Martian Chronicles. His characters range from the "ordinary"---a rookie cop, an unhappy wife on vacation in Mexico, an old parish priest hearing confession---to the quite extraordinary: the parrot to whom Ernest Hemingway confided the plot of his last, greatest, never-put-down-on-paper novel, and a woman who, in New York City in the summer of 1974, hangs out a sign reading "Melissa Toad, Witch." Fantastic or conventional, chillingly suspenseful or hauntingly nostalgic, each of these stories has that aura of the unexpected combined with the special ring of absolute rightness that is brilliantly, uniquely Bradbury. Track List for Long After Midnight: Disc 1 "The Blue Bottle"---Track 1
"One Timeless Spring"---Track 10
"The Parrot Who Met Papa"---Track 16 Disc 2 "The Burning Man"---Track 2
"A Piece of Wood"---Track 9
"The Messiah"---Track 13
"G.B.S.---Mark V"---Track 21 Disc 3 "The Utterly Perfect Murder"---Track 3
"Punishment Without Crime"---Track 11
"Getting Through Sunday Somehow"---Track 19 Disc 4 "Drink Entire: Against the Madness of Crowds"---Track 1
"Interval in Sunlight"---Track 11 Disc 5 "A Story of Love"---Track 9
"The Wish"---Track 17 Disc 6 "Forever and the Earth"---Track 2
"The Better Part of Wisdom"---Track 17
Disc 7 "Darling Adolf"---Track 4
"The Miracles of Jamie"---Track 17 Disc 8 "The October Game"---Track 1
"The Pumpernickel"---Track 8
"Long After Midnight"---Track 11
"Have I Got a Chocolate Bar for You!"---Track 16 About the Author: Ray Bradbury, is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and poet. He became a full-time writer in 1943 and contributed numerous short stories to periodicals before publishing a collection of them, Dark Carnival, in 1947. His reputation as a writer of courage and vision was established with the publication of The Martian Chronicles in 1950, which describes Earthlings' first attempts to conquer and colonize Mars and the unintended consequences. Next came The Illustrated Man and Fahrenheit 451, which many consider to be Bradbury's masterpiece. Other works by Bradbury include The October Country, Dandelion Wine, A Medicine for Melancholy, Something Wicked This Way Comes, I Sing the Body Electric! Quicker Than the Eye, and Driving Blind. In all, Bradbury has published more than thirty books and close to six hundred short stories. He has been awarded the O. Henry Memorial Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award, the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America, and the PEN Center USA West Lifetime Achievement Award, among others. About the performer: Michael Prichard has played several thousand characters during his career. While he has been seen performing over one hundred of them in theater and film, Michael is primarily heard, having recorded well over five hundred full-length books. During his career as a one-man repertory company, he has recorded many series with running characters---including the complete Travis McGee adventures by John D. MacDonald and the complete Nero Wolfe mysteries by Rex Stout---as well as series by such masters as Mark Twain, John Cheever, and John Updike. His numerous awards and accolades include an Audie Award for Tears in the Darkness by Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman and several AudioFile Earphones Awards, including for At All Costs by Sam Moses and In Nixon's Web by L. Patrick Gray III. Named a Top Ten Golden Voice by SmartMoney magazine, he holds an M.F.A. in theater from the University of Southern California. Michael appears regularly on the professional stage, including as a member of Ray Bradbury's Pandemonium Theatre Company, performing such great roles as Captain Beatty in Fahrenheit 451, which became the second-longest-running production in the Los Angeles area. | 
